Inside Tottenham's infamous lasagna-gate scandal that cost them Champions League footie
dailystar.co.ukArsenal leapfrogged rivals Tottenham on a bizarre day of the 2005/06 Premier League season after bout a food poisoning from a dodgy lasagne impaired the condition of Martin Jol's playing squad.
Spurs went into the game knowing that they could secure a top-four finish and Champions League football with a win over West Ham - but lost 2-1 with Arsenal doing the business 4-2 against Wigan.
For Tottenham, disaster struck on the eve of the London derby, with Edgar Davids, Robbie Keane and Michael Carrick among others forced to play through a sickness which their manager had never seen the like of before.Jol said after the match: "I have never experienced anything like this in football before."Adding when asked which players had been ill: "I can sum up the players who were not sick.
There was Paul Robinson, Stephen Kelly, Anthony Gardner and Jermain Defoe and the rest were sick."With it taking another four years and £300million in transfer fees for Spurs to reach Europe's premier competition, Arsenal made it in 2006/07 with a huge slice of luck despite having a squad that included Thierry Henry, Dennis Bergkamp and Robert Pires.Do Arsenal deserve to be in the Champions League more than Arsenal?
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